I've never particularly liked Twitter, but I never had a reason to
tell people not to use it. Until now?

Spammers Shorten Their URLs
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/spammers-shorten-their-urls/?th&emc=th

>Matt Sergeant, an anti-spam technologist at Message Labs, said the
>culture of Twitter — with people urgently retweeting links, often
>without even clicking on them — is sure to contribute to the spam
>problem in the months ahead. “The entire trust model of clicking on
>the URL is completely broken,” he said. “You can’t trust any URL on
>there.”


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